Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 31 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |
| 32 | ‘ Yes — from Italy , ’ Rosemary replied , and Leith could clearly hear a smile in her friend 's voice as though it had cheered her so much to hear Travis . |
| 33 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 34 | She had this thing that if it had been a Nigerian boy , the mother would be here saying " I 'm sorry my son has got your daughter pregnant . |
| 35 | We reckoned that the British Army was the most professional in the world and that it had been influential in training the South African and Israeli armies who we thought took second and third place . |
| 36 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 37 | In addition , Lord Meston submits that the court also had ‘ rights of custody ’ in the context of the Convention , because it had made orders in the course of the cross-motions before it which indicated that it was seized of the matter and that it had not determined either the father 's or the mother 's substantive applications and had adjourned the hearing of the mother 's substantive application for custody and for leave to remove the child from the jurisdiction until a date in August . |
| 38 | ‘ I was playing better at the end and if it had been a five set match I think I could have fought back . ’ |
| 39 | Tax and bill collectors faced more practical confusion , not only with a ‘ re-timed ’ calendar but because it had also been decided to start the legal year on January 1 instead of March 25 , which had been New Year 's Day since the twelfth century . |
| 40 | However , this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment . |
| 41 | The Oil Ministry announced on March 6 that damage assessment was under way and that it had embarked on a large-scale rehabilitation effort to restore buildings , pipelines and damaged reservoirs . |
| 42 | Miss Jarman sniffed heavily , took another mouthful of port and when it had gone down said testily : ‘ We 've much to talk over y'know that . |
| 43 | Judge Keith Matthewman said it was a well-planned scheme and if it had worked thousands of people would have lost money . |
| 44 | This time , however , she came by low loader rather than under her own steam and although it had been laid most expertly by BR staff , the track she was unloaded onto was several hundred yards from the nearest railway line . |
| 45 | The faintly mocking tone in his voice forced her back to reality , and she snatched her hand away from his hair as though it had come into contact with burning oil . |
| 46 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
| 47 | The mine had its tunnel driven into the side of a steep bank , making the hill look as though it had a toothless mouth . |
| 48 | This makes the ground look as though it had never been disturbed . |
| 49 | Jenna had never known if that last advice had come from her mother or if it had been her father 's order . |
| 50 | It 's Sir Ralph Halpern 's view that if it had n't been for the current worldwide recession , many more outside brands would have been introduced to the UK market . |
| 51 | The formal agreement of the League was , however , necessary as it gave the campaign a much closer connection with the Labour Party than if it had appeared as a personal crusade by Cripps . |
| 52 | It landed six inches from my face and before it had stopped quivering in the ground , a red one slapped down next to it . |
| 53 | What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body . |
| 54 | ‘ I missed a simple note and if it had been anyone else , nobody would have batted an eyelid , ’ he said . |
| 55 | The advocates of " Unity " argued , however , that a considerable change had come over the Communist Party and that it had given up its " social fascist " accusations . |